Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1935, Page 12

—12 WEAK CHILD KING IN COUNTRY HOME Place for Convalescents of Poor Families Shows Vast Improvement. “Picking the weakest child and making it the fittest” is the work to| which the Children’s Country Home has dedicated itself. It is a year-round haven for the disease-weakened and underfed off- | spring of indigent parents, three- quarters of whom are on relief, too poor to provide for the children seri- ously in need of care. * It was launched in 1888 and for More than 40 years was only a Sum- mer retreat where convalescent un- | derprivileged boys and girls of pre- | school age could go for a few months of sunshine and proper attention. | Now children are brought 12 months | & year to its graceful, attractive build- | ing at Eighteenth street and Bunker | Hill road northeast to be in truth | made “fit for living.” The number who can benefit from the home's work is severely limited. Its capacity is 42 children. Last year 173 patients were admitted. The Waiting list is long, but only those in dire distress can be cared for. Limited as to Age. The home is a convalescent institu- tion for children from 6 months to | @ years. The patients are brought mainly from Children’s Hospital. | Many come direct from homes where social service workers find them, and | the rest are sent by the city’s othcr‘ hospitals. | It is maintained by a Board of Lady Managers, headed by Mrs. Philip Cof- fin, and derives most of its financial support from the Community Chest. | The Thrift Shop makes donations, | and part of the President’s Ball fund was assigned to the home for the care of polio cases. | The children themselves pay very | lttle. Some parents, to buoy their | self-respect, pay 25 cents to $1 a week | toward the expenses entailed in keep- | ifig their children at the home. The | father of one little girl now at the| institution pays $5 a week. This is almost a record. Dr. Frank Leech of Children’s Hos- | pital heads the medical staff, with Dr. | Montgomery Blair, Dr. H. Lynn Colvin and Dr. John H. McLeod aiding him. “The home is built around the chil- |, dren.” says Miss Edith Torkington, | its superintendent, and she is right. Appropriate Furniture. The whole organization is of & size | to accommodate tiny folk. The tables | are low, the chairs are low, the wash basins are low. The beds are cribs, | varying in color from white to the | bright blue used by the boys and girls from 3 to 7. High chairs line one wall of the dining room, and at meal time their avidly hungry occupants | pound impatiently on the boards in front of them. | A play room is piled high with toys. dolls, fire trucks, wagons, blocks and big books filled with pictures. Here | on rainy days Mrs. Geneva Warner supervises the children—teaches them | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, e o— flince dlugsiacuesip fe eads pi;a . Mitchell, Mrs, J. Pierpont Mot of the time the boys and girls | Mofat, Mrs. J. Upchur Moorhead, play on a green lawn that slopes | yonry “Cyrtis Morris, Mrs. Fleming away from the main building to a : Newbold, Mrs. Joseph Noell, Mrs. high fence. An area thick with Peb- | pigh O'Donnell, Mrs. Nelson E bles is another play place. | Perin, Mrs. Waggaman Pulver. Mrs. | The children are under constant|p.h.. "1 " poocevelt, Mrs. Edwards from Children's Hospital. They are watch of three graduate nurses, all |gp ..o Mre Richard Southeate, Mm[ weighed twice a week and examined Henry Benning Spencer. Mrs. Wins- low B. Van Devanter, Mrs. Lee P. by the doctors twice a week. TReIr | y,ren Mrs. John R. Williams and | i temperature is taken twice a day. Their life is strictly regimented and | supervised at all times. ! The arriving patient is isolated for Mrs. Ralph Worthington. (This is the fourth of a series of ar- ticles on privately-financed social wel- #wo weeks in an admission cubicle. | fare work in the District of Columbia. | where with five others he or she leads & life apart, under the eye of a special nurse. At the end of this initial period, if there is no temperature or symptom of contagious disease. the child is placed in the nursery with the other convalescents. Stay Not Limited. There they are kept at least two months, with no limit set on the time they may stay. The children wear no uniforms. They are clothed 1n cotton dresses and play suits supplied by the home. which permits the children to keep only their shoes while at the institu- tion A recent innovation is the two-day- | #-week volunteer work of a social | gervice expert, who contacts the child’s :nmp before it leaves the Country | ome to determine what the condi- $ions are going to be, and then re- checks three weeks after the child has gone home to see if it is being readjusted to its surroundings. The wnole atmosphere of the place $8 one of great infoimality. The operty for the home was donated y Col. and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien. The Jow-lyinz, one-story building, de- signed by Nathan Wyeth, and its | decoration planned to some extent by Mrs. John R. Williams and Mrs, Harry | Next week's will concern Columbia Hospital.) FOUR TO GET_'DEGREES Wellesley Tomorrow. Four Washington girls will receive B. A. degrees at commencement exer- cises at Wellesley College tomorrow when Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins will deliver the annual ad- dress. They are Miss Martha Louise Little, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Little of Hotel Roosevelt; Miss Martha Goddard Morrow, and Mrs. Gilnam Morrow, 1914 Con- necticut avenue: Miss Arria Griffith McGinniss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Harry W. McGinniss, Kensington; and Miss Alice Richardson, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. George B. Richardson, 3120 Newark street. TRUCK MEN TO MEET 200 Will Hear Eastman at Spe- cial Session Tomorrow. Anticipating Federal regulation of daughter of Mr. | | | Washington Girls to Graduate at | DOCKET SHRINKS IN POLICE COURT Seventeen More Jury Cases Dis- posed of Than Were Added to List in Last Week. The Children's Country Home, Eighteenth street and Bunker Hill road northeast, brings sunshine and light into the lives of little girls and boys who might other- wise die slowly of malnutrition in homes which can ill afford the food, medicine and care they require. 'MODEL AIRPLANES WILL BE EXHIBITED | Match Box Could Be Used as Hangar for Some to Be Shown at Museum. A match box could be used for a | hangar by some of the aircraft models which will be on display at the new National Museum during the annual scale model contest and exhibit to be held June 19 to 29. The exhibit will be conducted by the District of Co- | | lumbia Model Aircraft League, under | 'Jhe auspices of the Department o![ | Playgrounds. | | Between 75 and 100 models have | | been entered in past years and at | least such a number is expected this | year. | Not all the models will be small, | since craft up to 3 or 4 feet long are eligible. | This year's contest will be for ex- hibition models only. The classes are: 9-inch wing spread or under; museum | class models built to %-inch scal over 9 inch, except in %-inch scale; junior group under 16, and senior | group 16 or over. Eighteen prizes of tools and model-building materials will be awarded. A championship plaque will go to the best all-around model. Paul E. Garber, technical adviser, | and John H. Williams, supervisor, are | |in charge of the affair. Models will be taken to the Museum Building June 19 from 3:30 to 4 pm, and on June 20 from 9 a.m. to noon, and will | be reclaimed June 28 from 3 to 4 p.m., and on June 29 from 9 a.m. to noon. There were 17 more jury cases dis- posed of in Police Court last week than were added to the docket through jury trial demands, it is revealed in a record prepared yesterday by As- sistant Corporation Counsel George D Neilson for Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman. During the week 24 cases were dis- | posed of. Two persons were con- victed by juries, one lor leaving after | colliding and the otaer for reckless driving; two persons were acquitted and 20 changed their demands for jury trials and their cases were finally disposed of. There was one nolle prosse, but in this case the charge | was lowered and it then was absorbed Kerr, was built with the proceeds | their industry, about 200 leading truck from the sale of the original home's | operators from all parts of the country property i Rock Creek Park, given | will assemble at the Mayflower Hotel by Charles Glover, to whom the play- | tomorrow and Tuesday to “talk it foom is dedicated. over.” Mrs. Williams hit upon painting| The meeting has been called by | the babies’ room pink, the girls' blue | American Trucking Association, Inc., and the boys' green. |the national organization for the “I like that green for the boys,” | trucking industry. Mrs. Williams exclaimed. Federal Co-ordinator of Transporta- As well as fitting young children | tion Joseph B. Eastman will address for a better life, the home trains an- | the operators at a session tomorrow nually six nursery aides, young wom- | afternoon. en taught to care for babies so that they can help motaers in private | ‘homes. “T love the work,” said Mrs. Coffin, who has just been chosen president for a second term. ) Greatly Improved. “I've seen tremendous improve- | ments made in the home during the | last few years. We've established an | admittance ward; we've had the home | insulated; we've increased the staff | eof doctors from one to four. “We owe most of our advance to Miiss Mattie Gibson, head of Chil- dren’s Hospital, who sends us her best nurses and co-operates as far as ghe can. I like to feel we're almost annex to the Children's Hospital. «I would like it if we were able to accommodate more children. The Bospitals can’t possibly keep the con- lescent children, and we have space only a few.” *.With Mrs. Coffin on the Board of Jady Managers are: 2 Mrs. Kenna Elkins, vice president; Mrs. Archibald H. Davis, secretary; Mrs. McKeldin Tucker, assistant sec- yetary; Walter F. Chappell, treasurer; Mrs, Cresson Newbold, assistant treas- | urer. Mrs. Chandler P. Anderson, Mrs. | Paul Bastedo, Mrs. F. Lammot Belin, | Mrs. Montgomery Blair, jr.; Mrs. John Boettiger, Mrs. Jacques Blaise de Si- bour, Mrs. William Jasper DuBose, | Mrs. Frederick DeC. Faust, Mrs. Alex- ander B. Hagner, Mrs. Leland Har- rison, Mrs, Frederick C. Hicks, Mrs. Joseph Himes, Mrs. Alanson B. oughton, Mrs. Harry H. Kerr, Mrs. wid McK. Key, Mrs. Alexander B. Legare, Mrs. S. Kent Legare, Mrs. Jo- seph Leiter, Mrs. Frank C. Letts, Mrs. 2;1:.1: H. Maddox, Mrs. Ormsby Mc- on, Mrs. William Payne Mere- dith, Mrs. James F, Mitchell, Miss B in the cases in whica the jury trials had been drorped by the defendants. While these cases were being wiped from the jury trial docket there were only seven persons whose cases would | be handled by the corporation coun- sel's officc who demanded trials by jury. One reason for the large number of jury cases disposed of was that there was little other court business during | % | the Shrine Convention. STORAGE and MOVING All Furniture Carefully Crated and Packed by Experts Long Distance Movers Fine Fur Coats Fumigated and Stored in Moth- Rooms. Oriental Rugs Sham- pooed or Cleaned by Ar- menian Experts. 1313 U St. Phone No. 3343 B e ¢ A L 3 % % § ® Hair can smile CHESHALSPWA THO-YEAR RECORD Credits Administration With Creating 4,000,000 Jobs and Aiding Recovery. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Ickes last night claimed for the Public Works Administration— on its second anniversary—a “lasting contribution to steel and masonry to social progress” and credit “in no small measure for the registered re- covery of the Nation’s business.” The $3,700,000,000 program, Ickes said, “is on schedule.” “To many critics,” he said, “exe- cution of the first program ‘has seemed intolerably slow and to others recklessly fast for such a vast effort. But the schedule was determined by Congress and P. W, A, has lived up to the law.” Referring to the $400,000,000 ap- propriation made last year to supple- ment the original $3.300,000,000 fund, and the extension of P. W. A, for two years, Ickes said: “Twice since its organization has the Congress, in behalf of the Ameri- can people, reaffirmed confidence in P. W. 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ECTIN g L] JUXE 16, 1935—PART ONE. administration of the second great public works G Iekes claimed that 2,000,000 per- sons had been given direct employ- ment for varying periods and another 2,000,000 jobs in providing $1,000,- 000,000 worth of materials arid equip- ment. With $2,525,000,000 paid out from the original $3,300,000,000, .and the remainer obligated, he said: “This vast sum, distributed through millions of pay envelopes, created new outlets for goods and is credited by econo- mists with having been responsibie in no small measure for the registered recovery of the Nation’s business from the doldrums of 1929 and subsequent years. * * ¢ P. W. A. checked the downward trend of construction ac- tivities in 1934, reversing a decline which had continued from 1929 on through subsequent years.” Saying that $1,080,000,000 of P. W. A: funds had been allotted for ex- penses of other Government agencies, such as the Civillan Conservation Corps and the Civil Works Adminis- tration, Ickes asserted 97 per cent of FPederal projects and 90 per cent of those carried out by States and com- munities had been completed or were “well under way.” Expects Large Repayment. He predicted that - $1,000,000,000 would be paid back from $550,000,000 loaned on non-Federal projects and revenues of Federal projects, “This tremendous P. 7 Ja gram, unrivaled in magnitude and in the scope of its achievements by any fi:lu“ 'hz:k- ph:’ Int hmory." Tckes | = moved steadily along a| Mrs. Ellen Ahern, 6 road beset with difficulties. | treland and a resident .6! lmnl“ev;’:'fl “Our housing projects have been |for the past 50 years, died at her delayed by litigation, by greed and by | home, 3242 Q street, Thursday. Pu- selfish opposition; we have been |neral services will be held at 9:30 nagged by unfriendly critics who am. tomorrow at the Holy Trinity sought to obstruct our progress. We Church. have had to chart our own course, She is survived by her husband. set our own precedents, pioneer our | Michael T. Ahern: a son, Patrick J. entire program. Ahern, and four daughters, Mary E.. “Yet we have followed to the let- | Julia E., Katherine 8. and Sister Mary ter the policies announced within a | Aimee of the Order of Sisters of mom.h‘nmr our organization was Mercy, Baltimore, set up.” e ———is. VACANCIES IN ARMY Three playz and an operetta wers presented by the pupils of the Alexan- Enlistment in the U. . Army Medi- | der R. 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